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Examples of Technology Integration in History and Social Studies
Below you will find an annotated list of resources -- mostly essays and articles -- that deal with technology integration in history and social studies.
History Matters: Essays on History and New Media
"Essays devoted to the theoretical and practical aspects of taking history into a digital format, including comments on design and technical factors." An excellent sample though most essays are geared towards university educators.
Best Practices of Technology Integration: Social Studies
This site is sponsored by the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators, the REMC Association of Michigan, and the Great Lakes Educational Network (Glen).The lesson plans that you will find here have been written by practicing teachers and have been "kid tested" to work in the classroom.
Technology & Learning Netwwork: techlearning.com
The Technology & Learning Network encompasses Technology & Learning magazine, techlearning.com, and Technology & Learning Events. These companion media offer online, conference, and print avenues for providing administrators, technology professionals, and teachers with comprehensive, relevant, and authoritative information on technology trends, new products, news, and funding sources for their technology programs. Techlearning is chalk full of articles by teachers who have successfully integrated technology into their courses. Several contributions from history and social studies are listed below.
Phases of Technology Use and Learning
NCREL North Central Regional Educational Laboratory: Specializes in educational applications of technology to improve learning. Several recommendations below are drawn from their impressive array of resources.
Technology in the History Classroom: Lessons Learned After Four Years of Technology-Aided Instruction and Research
Tom Daccord began teaching high school history in 1985, but had never used a computer in the classroom before the fall of 1998. Thanks to the training he received from the school's computer department and administrators, he has been teaching laptop-based courses for four years now. In his classes students use computers to take and store notes, go on virtual trips, do web-based research and assignments, take tests and quizzes, turn in essays, make graphic-based outlines, produce slide shows and make documentary films. He uses computers to formulate web-based assignments, prepare graphic presentations, present CD-ROMS , grade essays and tests, record grades, create and maintain a course web page, send e-mail to students, and more. Read his story.
Michael Hutchison's Web Gallery
Michael Hutchison, an award winning social studies teacher, shows how a teacher can make use of the electronic revolution and bring both his teaching and his students' learning into the modern age.
The Journal for Multimedia History a journal of history that uses hypertext and multimedia technologies to merge audio, video, graphics, and text into a form that can only be communicated on the World Wide Web (WWW) or on CD-ROM/DVD mediums. Though designed for college and university professors, there are articles of use to secondary school history teachers, for instance:
- Un-Tangling the Web of Cold War Studies; or,How One Historian Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Internet.(Vol.3)
- Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology (Vol.1)
- Student-Constructed Web Sites for Research Projects: Is It Worth It?(Vol. I)
Developing a Model for Teaching Inservice Social Studies with Computers
Alex C. Pan , Ruth Koskela, Judson Lyon; University of Wisconsin at Whitewater argue that "integrating computers into social studies teaching and learning is desirable and highly recommended." They point out that today's computer technology has created an amazing learning environment and has changed the way teachers teach and students learn.
The History Lab
The "History Lab" site is an exciting resource for upper-level teachers who want to use primary sources in their classes. It's an online lesson template where teachers create inquiry-based lessons similar to science labs -- studying real materials, working in-depth on a narrow topic, using a methodology, formulating hypotheses, "doing" the subject rather than just learning "about" it, etc... There are currently a small number of labs in the collection but that number will increase quite a bit this fall and will continue to increase. Use of the labs is free.
Multimedia Fun with History
Irene Huschak asked her students for pictures that were more than 50 years old and created a digital photo archive gave students a new appreciation of the area's past.
Collaborative Internet Learning: Strategies and Success Stories
Joanne Tate describes an assortment of cross-cultural technology-based globally-collaborative "ventures" including discussion with students in Japan to discuss both the Holocaust and Hiroshima and a National Identity Project in which students in rural Australia and in Moscow exchanged thoughts on their respective cultures.
Creating a Class Newspaper
"Miriam considers information and communication technology to be a valuable tool that enriches her teaching and provides students with important opportunities to be creative in the learning process. She took a course at the University of Malta to study how children can become creative writers. She came up with the idea of encouraging her students to create a class newspaper using their own creative writing. This was a challenging project for eight- and nine-year-olds, but they lived up to the challenge. They created a wonderful newspaper, full of interesting articles, all colorfully displayed. Read about the process and the product."
Students Teaching with Technology
Sandra Hildreth's 7th- through 12th-grade Arts and Humanities students had one computer, but used it effectively to become self-disciplined collaborative workers and problem solvers.
Planning an Online History Project
Designing an online history site
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